[Copyright] Osaka District Court, Case No. 2025 (Wa) 3632
(Presiding Judge Matsuami) The plaintiff, a former professor at Tokushima University, alleged that the defendant's program was the plaintiff's copyrighted work or a jointly owned copyrighted work. ⇒ The very existence of the "plaintiff's program" was not established. The plaintiff lost.
[Copyright] Tokyo District Court, Case No. 2023 (Wa) 70626
(Presiding Judge Takahashi) 1. The text of articles prepared by Kyodo News (the plaintiff) and distributed to newspaper companies does not fall within "miscellaneous news and reporting of current events that are merely communications of facts" (Article 10(2) of the Copyright Act), and qualifies as copyrighted works.
A Recent Court Decision on the Copyrightability of Applied Art
A 2015 case note on the copyrightability of applied art, discussing the decision in Heisei 26 (Ne) No. 10063 and its relationship to approaches in foreign jurisdictions.
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